As of --:--:-- -.-.
today, there are an estimated -,---,---,
people in U.S. prisons and jails.
(Source:
Prisonsucks.com: Research on the crime control
industry.)

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This biography was written on February 27, 2008, by Ana Lucia Gelabert who
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Ana Lucia Gelabert is a U.S. citizen of Cuban national origin. Born in 1938 in Central Cuba, she came to the U.S. for the last time in 1961 and has been in a Texas prison since 1984, serving 2 life sentences, concurrent and "non-aggravated" after an incident with Houston police in which only she was injured. TDCJ estimated her parole release date in 1992---yes, that was 16 years ago. Root cause of her offense was the State of Texas trying, and succeeding, to strip her of parental rights to her own 3 children. To this day, Gelabert vows that if it happened all over again today, still she would fight her children regardless of cost of consequences. She tries to answer all mail sent to her to the address below. Also, the comics posted here she does entirely for free and not charging a cent.